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Wheels are Rota GForce 18x9 +35
Tires are 225/40/18
Fenders are rolled all four
Lol tires do rub, only when turning hard or going up steepish driveways
I have camber plates and they are maxed out but I need to get a alignment.
No other suspension mods.
I like it a lot just really stiff. But handles good

Actually, a roll center adjustment kit from whiteline would easily negate any effects on the suspension geometry from lowering...but I realize it's much easier to continually hate on anyone that doesn't keep their stock ride height.

That's not true, and there are other aspects that kill the handling. A slammed car on coilovers can be out driven by a WRX on stock struts. The wheel setup also degrades handling. See my pending response to Skizzl3.

meh. i have an lgt that needed a lot of help suspension-wise and a good set of coilovers will both lower and greatly improve handling, though i went with bilstein struts and cobb springs. can't imagine a rexy would be so drastically different...

I just made a long post in here that addressed why I said what I did. If your interested please feel free to look over it. It's a myth that coilovers and riding lower will automatically greatly improve handling.

note i said good set of coilovers... i'm not saying his setup is better or worse, i don't know. maybe he's on megans and having an awful time. i just know it's possible to lower the car and improve handling as i certainly experienced. but leggy's have a huge gap to begin with and struts that are waaaay too soft.

1: your tires are to small for your wheels
2: you have rotas ... they are shit I am sry for you
3: Herraflush is herra fail
4: what coils did you use ? let me guess some cookie cutter cheap ones Megan, tein ...
5: why?
6:why do you have mud flaps ? you will not go in the mud with a stanced car. Stop being a poser

to be fair, it's not that low. it looks like there's still a tiny bit of wheel gap, at least his tires are up inside his fenders.

Also, I can't tell your opinion on springs, but are you against them or just against cheap ones? I was considering in the future getting RCE or cobb springs, just to lower my car a little under an inch and improve the handling a bit.

Having a lower center of gravity is a good thing, ie BRZ, and just because it's not on stock springs doesn't mean there's no suspension travel. I've been reading up a little bit since posting, and from everything I've found, the shitty springs like Tien are really bad for reliability. Good springs just have a compromise. It was something like, you get to choose two of these when deciding on springs: how it makes the car look, handling, ride comfort. The thing about tien springs is it makes the wheel gap and the car like completely level which is what is bad for reliability.

In your other comment you said the RCE springs don't fuck up the suspension geometry. So here are you talking about something like OP probably did? Or are you saying RCE isn't the only thing I should do. Cause I don't feel like spending 2 grand on shocks and shit, so if it's not worth it I just won't worry about it.

The problem with Tein S-Tech springs were that they lowered the car too much for the stock struts. You were basically sitting on the bump stops (which technically Tein instructs you to shave) on level ground. Every time you go over a bump you're slamming into that bump stop. You may not feel it, but it is happening. And the spring rates were just not very competitive at all. Good GD springs will have better rates and not lower the car more than ~1.25. This contradicts your statement about a lower center of gravity being automatically better. The BRZ does have a lower center of gravity, but its suspension geometry was mapped out to accommodate for it.

There are other issues at hand. I guarantee you that this car is sitting on BCs, Megans, Stance, Ksport, etc rather than some of the well developed, pricier options like KW V3s, AST 41x0, or RCE Tarmac 2s. These budget coilovers can be out handled by the stock struts for several reasons. They have no real R&D into them and thus are made with random, subpar off the shelf parts. They are /all/ over sprung and under damped, which is bad for handling, damper longevity and ride quality (you can't fully adjust out the bouncy feel). And aside from the obvious of there not being enough room suspension travel with his wheel setup before his fender meets his wheels, these coilovers don't offer much in terms of travel out of the box (click here for pictures, I suggest also watching the videos). Even at that ride height I promise you he is riding the bump stops on those coilovers when ever he drives. This will kills a set of coilovers just as quickly as stock struts as much as some people refuse to acknowledge it.

Not only this, but his wheel setup also kills handling. He's running stretched tires on low offset, redundantly wide wheels. The are heavier than better sized options and the poor offset (another factor of suspension geometry) also does harm. Going with too low of an offset increases the scrub radius, reducing steering feel, steering responsiveness, tire contact patch, and increases tramlining and long term wear and tear on various steering and suspension components. The only gain is in the increase in track width, but you will only see benefit from that in high speed track driving when you see slightly more stability.

Don't be under the illusion that this car handles on rails. It may feel like it to the OP, but lined up to a car with a much less aggressive setup the OP will be slightly disappointed in the performance results.

And it just looks silly with stretched tires on wide wheels and because they are sticking out past the fender. But that's all opinion.

Just wanna point out that I didn't mean that lower automatically means better. I understand that you can't just slam it and expect shit to not fuck up. I was saying it because I thought you were saying lowering is bad all around to my first response. In my first response I was just trying to say that it may not be as bad as crzy was saying and maybe wasn't deserving of such hate haha. But yeah, I did notice the tires and wheels and thought wtf.

Take the stick out of your ass, and stop telling people how to modify their rides. Is HellaFucked really my thing? No, not particularly. Does that give you license to make assumptions about this person's car? No, not particularly. Do you know for a fact what coils he/she is riding on? Have you read at all about the true quality of Rota's? They aren't that bad. Do you have something against putting mudflaps on your car simply because it looks cool? I don't. So, who is really the poser in this situation.

Yep, a highly educating troll who is trying to help people by telling them how parts work. For shame! Everyone should just mind their business and let people continue to believe what they want even if it's factually wrong!

I know how parts work you "educated" fuck. I'm a technician with a degree so I don't need you to tell me how to mod my cars theirs a reason it's MY car and not yours. I don't troll you and tell you how to mod your shit.